Recently I was talking with a teen-age friend of mine. She said, "Sunday School is OK. I've been going since I was three. But why can't teachers think up something besides, 'How did you use Christian Science this week?' Or, 'Did you read the lesson?' That's so boring!"
As she talked, I listened. How often I had used this technique in teaching in Sunday School! I asked myself some questions. Were these young people learning how to find practical, spiritual answers for their human needs and aspirations? What was each one's interest, yearning, and ambition? For the next few weeks I listened intently to each one. I wanted to know what was really of concern to these young people. I wanted to help them find the specific spiritual truths that would meet their needs and aspirations.
A high school student was condemning himself because he had not yet felt any necessity to read the whole Lesson-Sermon every day. He said, "When I don't, I feel guilty." He was referring to the Bible Lessons in the Christian Science Quarterly that Christian Scientists study regularly.
